Heenan, Lambert
Lambert.Heenan at aig.com
Wed Dec 10 07:55:42 CST 2014
Exactly. What reason is there to go anywhere else but Mozilla.org? Not all add-ins are bad of course. Web Of Trust is one I have in Chrome that I would not do without. Nor have I found Chrome to be 'hammered' with any unwanted add-ins. IMHO a major culprit is installation programs for other programs which have additional payloads that install if you do not pay attention to all those dialog boxes in the install process. Lambert -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John R Bartow Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 11:52 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? Importance: High Which brings up a good point - download from the original developer (if possible). -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of peter.brawley at earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 7:56 PM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? most sites offering ff downloads bundle it with crapware. pb ---- Original Message ---- From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com> Reply-To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Date: 12/09/14 4:40 PM To: "DatabaseAdvisors-Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Cc: Sub: [dba-Tech] Bundled Adware in IE? Hi, My sister just purchased a new Dell Latitude, with Win 8.1. Suddenly, pop-ups appeared all over IE, Firefox seemed to disappear and become Speed Browser, a bunch of icons appeared on her desktop that were unwelcome. I got into IE and found add-ons that were aggressive adware - at least a dozen of them - and their "disable" option was unavailable. I did finally get rid of them, but I was astonished to see them in the first place. Has anybody else had this experience with a brand new machine? She had used IE to download Firefox, and was about to download her favorite antivirus program, when pop-ups began proliferating all over the screen. Some had nice little Xs in the top right corner, that looked like commands to close, but, when she clicked the X instead of stopping, it behaved as though she had said "Yes, go ahead." This so frustrated her that she just shut down the computer. So, today, I spent several hours cleaning it up. Thanks, TNF -- Tina Norris Fields tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com 231-322-2787 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com ---- End Original Message ---- _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com